biography
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Cooke, (Alfred) Alistair
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| lived:
| (1908– )
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| biography:
| Journalist and broadcaster, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and won a scholarship to study at Yale and Harvard. He returned to England, working as a film critic for the BBC, and as London correspondent for a US broadcasting company (NBC). He returned to the USA in 1937, and became a US citizen in 1941. A sympathetic and urbane commentator on current affairs and popular culture in the USA, he has reported for several British newspapers, written numerous books, including One Man's America (1952), and edited The Vintage Mencken (1954). His ‘Letter from America’, first broadcast by the BBC in 1946, is the longest-running solo radio feature programme. He is also well-known for his BBC TV series America (1972–3), which produced a best-selling book. In 2003 he was inducted into the newly established Radio Hall of Fame. |
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